CVE-2024-0181VulnerabilityPublished 1 Jan 2024Updated 3 Jun 2025

CVE-2024-0181: RRJ Nueva Ecija Engineer Online Portal · Cross Site Scripting

Affects RRJ Nueva Ecija Engineer Online PortalSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 2.4 Low.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 06:26 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

2.4Low

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 46% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: High
User Interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: High: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide significant (e.g., administrative) control over the vulnerable component that could affect component-wide settings and files.
User Interaction: Required: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to take some action before the vulnerability can be exploited.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 1 Jan 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
RRJ Nueva Ecija Engineer Online Portal	Affected =1.0	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

1. Implement strict input validation and output encoding on all user-supplied data, especially in administrative interfaces. Use context-aware encoding (e.g., HTML entity encoding) to neutralize malicious scripts. 2. Employ Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to restrict the execution of unauthorized scripts within the portal. 3. Enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for administrator accounts to reduce the risk of compromised credentials being exploited. 4. Conduct regular security code reviews and penetration testing focused on admin panels and user input handling. 5. Monitor and log administrative activities to detect anomalous behavior potentially indicative of exploitation attempts. 6. If feasible, isolate the admin panel behind a VPN or IP whitelist to limit exposure. 7. Engage with the vendor or development team to prioritize the release of a security patch addressing this vulnerability. 8. Educate administrators about the risks of clicking on suspicious links or executing untrusted scripts, as user interaction is required for exploitation.

Description

A vulnerability was found in RRJ Nueva Ecija Engineer Online Portal 1.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /admin/admin_user.php of the component Admin Panel. The manipulation of the argument Firstname/Lastname/Username leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier VDB-249433 was assigned to this vulnerability.

Impact

For European organizations, the direct impact of this vulnerability is likely minimal given the specific nature and regional focus of the affected product (RRJ Nueva Ecija Engineer Online Portal). However, if any European entities use this portal or similar custom-built administrative web applications with comparable vulnerabilities, they could face risks of session hijacking, unauthorized actions performed by attackers impersonating administrators, or defacement of administrative interfaces. The exploitation requires authenticated admin access and user interaction, which reduces the likelihood of widespread automated attacks. Nonetheless, successful exploitation could undermine the integrity of administrative functions, potentially leading to unauthorized changes in user data or system configurations. For organizations handling sensitive engineering or infrastructure data, even low-severity XSS vulnerabilities can be leveraged as part of a broader attack chain, especially if combined with social engineering or phishing campaigns targeting administrators.

Summary

CVE-2024-0181 is a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability identified in version 1.0 of the RRJ Nueva Ecija Engineer Online Portal, specifically within the Admin Panel component located at /admin/admin_user.php. The vulnerability arises from improper sanitization or validation of user-supplied input in the Firstname, Lastname, and Username parameters. An attacker can remotely craft malicious input that, when processed by the vulnerable portal, results in the execution of arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of an authenticated administrator's browser session. This type of vulnerability is classified under CWE-79, which pertains to improper neutralization of input during web page generation. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 2.4, indicating a low severity primarily due to the requirement for high privileges (administrator access) and user interaction to exploit the vulnerability. The impact is limited to integrity, as the attacker can potentially manipulate or inject scripts that may alter the behavior of the admin interface or steal session information, but there is no direct impact on confidentiality or availability. No public exploits are currently known in the wild, and no patches have been released yet. The vulnerability disclosure is recent (published January 1, 2024), and the affected product appears to be a niche online portal used by engineers in Nueva Ecija, Philippines, suggesting a limited but targeted scope.

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #1OWASP Top 10 A05:2025: Injection (opens in a new tab)
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Implementation · Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide…
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Injection Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.3.3 (opens in a new tab)
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch (opens in a new tab)
DOM-Based XSS (opens in a new tab)
Reflected XSS (opens in a new tab)
Stored XSS (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 4 Jul 2025, 00:55 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-79

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